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Investing in Families: Why America has lacked a paid maternity leave that benefits workers and employers

Investing in Families: Why America has lacked a paid maternity leave that benefits workers and employers

Posted by | May 1, 2021 |

By Chris Knoester, Associate Professor of Sociology, The Ohio State University; Richard J. Petts, Professor of Sociology, Ball State University; and Joya Misra, Professor of Sociology & Public Policy, University of Massachusetts Amherst The United States is the only wealthy nation that does not guarantee paid leave to mothers after they give birth or adopt a child. The vast majority of Americans would like to see that change. According to a YouGov poll of 21,000 people conducted between March 25 and April 1, 2021, 82% of Americans think employees should be able to take paid maternity leave, including for...

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Systemic Equality: ACLU outlines wide-ranging agenda to achieve racial justice

Systemic Equality: ACLU outlines wide-ranging agenda to achieve racial justice

Posted by | Apr 28, 2021 |

The American Civil Liberties Union launched an ambitious effort on February 9 to achieve racial justice, the Systemic Equality agenda. The agenda strives to dismantle a system deeply rooted in racist policies, practices, and attitudes that harm Black and Indigenous people of color. Through the Systemic Equality agenda, the ACLU will advance key policies to address this country’s legacy of racism and systemic discrimination and build a more equitable America for all. The organization plans to work with allies to use all of the necessary levers of government — including the legislative and legal process at all levels —...

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Revitalizing Main Streets: Governor Tony Evers plans $100M investment in equitable recovery program

Revitalizing Main Streets: Governor Tony Evers plans $100M investment in equitable recovery program

Posted by | Apr 26, 2021 |

Governor Tony Evers announced on April 13 that a $100 million investment would be made in Wisconsin’s economic recovery, as part of the state’s funds received under President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act. The investment aims to ensure businesses and communities across Wisconsin have additional support and resources to bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic. The news came after the governor recently announced his plan for investing $2.5 billion of federal funding, under the American Rescue Plan, into the state’s economic recovery and well-being. Of that amount, $600 million would go toward supporting small business recovery across the...

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Stalag Milwaukee: German World War II prisoners left their confinement at Camp Billy Mitchell 75 years ago

Stalag Milwaukee: German World War II prisoners left their confinement at Camp Billy Mitchell 75 years ago

Posted by | Apr 24, 2021 |

The highly anticipated upsurge of flight activity post-COVID vaccine at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport is second only to the surge expected 75 years ago this month. In April 1946 “Camp Billy Mitchell,” Milwaukee’s prisoner of war work camp, was finally decommissioned. The closure made way for Milwaukee County’s long-delayed post-war civilian air travel to soar. However, the War Department’s continued “squatting” would delay the anxiously anticipated air travel rush from taking flight for another two years. Between 1945 and 1946, over 3000 German prisoners of war (PW’s was the abbreviation used in 1945) were interned at General Mitchell Field,...

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Milwaukee grants $100,000 of funding to community groups in effort to help curb reckless driving

Milwaukee grants $100,000 of funding to community groups in effort to help curb reckless driving

Posted by | Apr 24, 2021 |

The City of Milwaukee will be distributing a total of $102,000 to 18 community groups to reduce reckless driving. The grants aim to reduce reckless driving behavior and decrease the number of traffic crashes by creating safer streets, fostering community involvement, and building awareness around the dangers and impacts of reckless driving. “Reckless Driving is a deadly danger on our streets. To improve safety, it is important that we bring together as many partners as possible to reduce the problem,” said Mayor Tom Barrett. “The Milwaukee Police are stepping up their efforts, and the work of community groups will...

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Elite Rule: The idea of allowing only “better” people to vote was first proposed by wealthy slaveholders

Elite Rule: The idea of allowing only “better” people to vote was first proposed by wealthy slaveholders

Posted by | Apr 18, 2021 |

Commentator Kevin Williamson published a piece in National Review on April 7 justifying voter suppression by suggesting that “the republic would be better served by having fewer, but better, voters.” Representatives, he says, “are people who act in other people’s interests,” which is different from doing what voters want. This is the same argument elite slaveholder James Henry Hammond made before the Senate in 1858, when he defended the idea that Congress should recognize the spread of human enslavement into Kansas despite the fact that the people living in that territory wanted to abolish slavery. Our Constitution, Hammond said,...

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